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Tsinghua U.
13 years 2 months ago
Creating artificial global history to improve branch prediction accuracy
Modern processors require highly accurate branch prediction for good performance. As such, a number of branch predictors have been proposed with varying size and complexity. This ...
Leo Porter, Dean M. Tullsen
JILP
2000
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13 years 4 months ago
Speculative Updates of Local and Global Branch History: A Quantitative Analysis
In today's wide-issue processors, even small branch-misprediction rates introduce substantial performance penalties. Worse yet, inadequate branch prediction creates a bottlen...
Kevin Skadron, Margaret Martonosi, Douglas W. Clar...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Accurate branch prediction for short threads
Multi-core processors, with low communication costs and high availability of execution cores, will increase the use of execution and compilation models that use short threads to e...
Bumyong Choi, Leo Porter, Dean M. Tullsen
IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Simple Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Neural-Class Branch Prediction
The continual demand for greater performance and growing concerns about the power consumption in highperformance microprocessors make the branch predictor a critical component of ...
Gabriel H. Loh